Encounters in Bioethics Program

Description

The Encounters in Bioethics Program is an essential part of the Centre for Health Care Ethics’ mission to foster high-quality, ethical health care through research, education, and capacity building.

Eight times a year, Encounters in Bioethics presents discussions and dialogues on ethical issues in health care. The sessions are freely available and are accessible via the Zoom video conferencing platform. Each one-hour-long session usually consists of a guest speaker, who is a recognized scholar/researcher, a local/regional practitioner, and/or a person with lived experience or a caregiver. The speaker presents a particular topic that highlights current moral issues in bioethics. After the presentation, there is normally an opportunity to discuss the issues with questions and comments from audience members via the Zoom chat feature.

Previous Encounters in Bioethics discussions have focused on issues such as end-of-life decisions, ethics of research with human subjects, Indigenous health ethics, cross-cultural values, religious and cultural interpretations, allocation of scarce resources, and professional codes of ethics.

Everyone is welcome and no registration is required. Please join us!


Join the Encounters in Bioethics session via Zoom.


Encounters in Bioethics 2024-2025

Bioethics 101: Trust and Ethics in Healthcare Delivery

September 26, 2024
12 - 1 pm

  • How principles of bioethics (e.g. respect for autonomy, beneficence) shape trust.
  • The role of trust (worthiness) in the ethical delivery of healthcare.
  • Understanding “trustworthiness” as a virtue in medicine. Reflections on trustworthiness as a “collective action” duty. Strategies for being trustworthy/gaining patient trust.

Presenter: Ryan Tonkens, PhD, Bioethicist, Lakehead University Centre for Health Care Ethics; Associate Professor, NOSMU; Adjunct, Department of Philosophy, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario.  

Free webinar. No registration is required. Everyone is welcome.

Certificate of Attendance available upon request to chce@lakeheadu.ca

Also... Save the Dates for these Thursday sessions, 12-1 pm (ET) on Zoom:

  • October 24, 2024
  • November 28, 2024
Credential Earned
Certificate of Attendance
Type
Lecture Series
Instructional Method
Lecture
Web Based
Location
Online
Schedule
Eight Sessions Per Year, Thursdays, 12 to 1 pm
Dates
September 26, 2024
October 24, 2024
November 28, 2024
Cost
Free

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